ELC 3.5
                    NOTICE OF DISCIPLINE


(a) Notice to Supreme Court.  The counsel to the Board must
provide the Supreme Court with:

  (1)  a copy of any decision imposing a disciplinary sanction
     when that decision becomes final;

  (2)  a copy of any admonition, together with the order
     issuing the admonition, when the admonition is accepted or
     otherwise becomes final; and

  (3)  a copy of any resignation in lieu of disbarment.

(b) Other Notices.  The counsel to the Board must also
notify the following entities of the imposition of a
disciplinary sanction or admonition, a resignation in lieu
of disbarment, or the filing of a statement of concern under
rule 3.4(f) as follows, in such form as may appear
appropriate:

  (1) the lawyer discipline authority or highest court
     in any jurisdiction where the lawyer is believed to be
     admitted to practice;

  (2) the chief judge of each federal district court in
     Washington State and the chief judge of the United
     States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit;

  (3) the National Discipline Data Bank; and

  (4) the Washington State Bar News.

(c) Preparation of Bar News Notice.  The counsel to the
Board has discretion in drafting notices for publication in
the Washington State Bar News, and should include sufficient
information to adequately inform the public and the members
of the Association about the misconduct found, the rules
violated and the disciplinary action imposed.  All notices
should include the respondent lawyer’s name, bar number,
date of admission, the time frame of the misconduct, the
rules violated, and the disciplinary action.  The counsel to
the Board must serve a copy of the draft notice on
respondent and disciplinary counsel under rule 4.1 and
review any comments filed with the counsel to the Board
within five days of service, but counsel to the Board’s
decision about the content of the notice is not subject to
further review.

(d) Notices of Suspension, Disbarment, Resignation in Lieu
of Disbarment, or Disability Inactive Status.  The
Association must publish a notice of the disbarment,
suspension, resignation in lieu of disbarment, or transfer
to disability inactive status of a lawyer in the Washington
State Bar News and electronic or other index or site
maintained by the Association for public information.  The
Association must provide copies of these notices to the news
media in a manner designed to notify the public in the
county or region where the lawyer has maintained a practice.
For a transfer to disability inactive status, no reference
may be made to the specific disability.

(e) Notice to Judges.  The Association must promptly notify
the presiding judge of the superior court of the county in
which the lawyer maintained a practice of the lawyer's
disbarment, suspension, resignation in lieu of disbarment,
or transfer to disability inactive status, and may similarly
notify the presiding judge of any district court located in
the county where the lawyer practiced, or the judge of any
other court in which the lawyer may have practiced or is
known to have practiced.


[Adopted effective October 1, 2002.]